DANGERLION

We’ll see how I like posting from this vs directly logging in to WordPress.  I also just installed Scrippets, a WordPress addon that lets me write in screenplay form via the blog.  Modern technology makes life so easy.

You guys are looking for Vegas stories.  I’ve received literally hundreds of emails asking me for autographs, begging me to make appearances on syndicated late night talk shows, pleading for trip reports.  Look, I have other priorities right now.  David Benyamine is waiting alone at 300/600NLHE.  Just kidding, David B is a really great player and I’d like never blow off Letterman because he’s sitting alone looking for a game.  Ok, kidding again, he sucks.  I guess you can consider this an open challenge (in the vein of FWF’s open challenge to stevesbets or danzasmack’s open challenge to FWF) – I’ll play David Benyamine for any length of time at 200/400 and/or 300/600 NLHE HU (I’d probably play 500/1k, even though it’s big for me, as well, if only there were 500/1k HU tables).  Fk the haters, right?  Book it.  Slap it.  Call me Susie.

Maybe I’ll write some more detailed vignettes in the coming days.  For now,

Top 10 Most Memorable Moments of Being the Star of a Reality TV show:

10- Sitting alone railing RailHeaven, watching patatino bluff good2cu and calling it out to the cameras, only for good2cu to make a huge call with trips on a 4-flush board, and have patatino ship the pot bluffing with the best hand, while I exclaim “that was some shit!”

9- Sitting alone playing RailHeaven, losing 500k+ while the rest of the cast was out shooting at the Golden Nugget, then having to explain to the cameras “what just happened” after I lost a 330k pot vs David B with overpair vs FD.  Oh yeah, and then having to phone Emil and tell him that he just lost a bunch of money while playing 2/5NL in downtown Vegas.

8- Ariel walking in from the Golden Nugget saying “Please don’t say “you’ll never guess what just happened”" only for me to respond with “No, seriously!  You’ll never guess what just happened!  You walked in the door just as we got AI with KK to QQ and he flopped a Q for another 300k pot we lost!”

7- Winning 1k prop betting with Jonas on what Athena is the Greek goddess of.  While at a topless pool.

6- Trying to dunk on 9’7″, missing like 20 times, smearing blood on my face from my finger (fucked up from slamming the rim over and over – little known fact about dunking, it fucks up your hand), and FINALLY jamming it home (all caveman style) only as the cameras had given up on me and were headed back inside (they later got me doing it again).

5- Buying a Breguet Maritime watch at Tourneau, even though I already own like 7 nice watches and was on a massive downswing.  This one is my favorite though.

4- Dinner at Nove, which was amazing, at the height of our downswing, when all was supposed to be lost, just laughing and having a good time with the guys.

3- All the spoiler shit I’m not allowed to write about yet.

2- Scarfing down a Blizzard at Dairy Queen with our DP, sound guy, and producer late night, listening to stories from when they shot the Amazing Race in a swamp, and got to eat all this awesome food on Top Chef, and hearing how this was the most interesting content they had ever worked on and how they all worked for basically nothing for 2 weeks with us because they had faith in the production, and us, and in the series getting picked up.

1- The party, and having our friends be witness to this surreal-ass experience, and Brian kicking some ass at 300/600 and the cameras finally getting us cheering, and laughing, and doing our thang, and swaggering our swagger, and really hammering home what life has been like for us since we all started playing poker together.

It’s gonna be some dope shit.